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Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.


J. K. Rowling


#austen #authors #jane #jane austen #other

Toni's Talk: When you invest in yourself, you have instant credibility with your biggest critic...you! As soon as you let doubt creep in---you lose that investment. Make a daily commitment to assess your worth with positive affirmations and watch your investment grow.


C.Toni Graham


#author #c-toni-graham #commitment #inspirational #ya-author

Everything happens for a reason, it’s up to you to determine the reason it happened. —Nate Spears


Nate Spears


#poetnatespears #inspirational

I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge them; unless a justification for them can be given, they are illegitimate, and should be dismantled, to increase the scope of human freedom.


Noam Chomsky


#challenge #dismantle #domination #freedom #heirarchy

Cowardice is the most terrible of vices.


Mikhail Bulgakov


#creativity #freedom #writer #freedom

Mr. Truman studiously avoided giving power to his White House staff that has been characteristic of recent administrations. Staff people in the White House, with no responsibility but incredible authority is one of the reasons we're now in so much trouble.


Stuart Symington


#avoided #been #characteristic #giving #his

The issue is whether the ultimate civil authority of the United States can tolerate actions in contempt of constitutional lines of authority. Any lessening of civil power over military power must inevitably lead away from democracy.


Harold Russell


#any #authority #away #civil #constitutional

The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.


Samuel Adams


#authority #earth #free #his #law

Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.


Edward Albee


#character #every #extension #know #material

I don't think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not in the least thought about it in terms of film, which can be turned into good films.


Paul Auster


#anything #author #complicated #film #films






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